[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer – Applied AI @Accellor

Role Description

Accellor is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Applied AI to build production-grade AI solutions for a leading global media and entertainment organization. You’ll work on AI initiatives across areas such as Studio Operations, Rights Management, and Finance, taking solutions from concept through production. This is a hands-on engineering role combining strong Python and Azure development with practical experience building LLM and RAG-powered applications.

• Design, build, and deploy production AI applications using Python and Azure.
• Build LLM-powered applications using prompt engineering, model integrations, tool calling, and AI workflows.
• Design and implement RAG solutions using embeddings, vector search, retrieval, knowledge grounding, and evaluation.
• Integrate AI applications with enterprise platforms, external APIs, databases, and Microsoft 365.
• Build scalable backend services, APIs, data models, and application integrations.
• Develop agentic AI workflows using tools such as MCP and multi-agent patterns where appropriate.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to turn ambiguous requirements into production solutions.
• Apply strong engineering practices around testing, security, observability, scalability, and performance.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of professional software engineering experience building production applications.
• Strong Python development experience with backend and/or full-stack applications.
• Hands-on Microsoft Azure experience, including Azure-native services and enterprise integrations.
• Experience building production applications using LLMs, including prompt engineering and model integration.
• Hands-on RAG experience, including vector search, retrieval patterns, knowledge grounding, and evaluation.
• Experience integrating external APIs, enterprise platforms, and Microsoft 365 services.
• Strong database and SQL experience.
• Strong understanding of APIs, application architecture, and modern software engineering practices.
• Ability to take ambiguous business problems from concept through production deployment.

Requirements

• Remote within the United States, with the ability to maintain meaningful overlap with Pacific Time working hours.
• Occasional travel may be required based on client needs.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, or Azure AI Foundry.
• Experience with MCP, tool integrations, agentic workflows, or multi-agent architectures.
• Experience with vector databases and enterprise search.
• Experience with AI evaluation, observability, and monitoring.
• Experience with CI/CD, containers, and cloud-native deployment.
• Experience in consulting, media and entertainment, or other complex enterprise environments.

Benefits

• The rate for this position is $70-80/hour.
• The actual pay will depend on your skills, experience, and qualifications.
• The salary range is subject to change.
• Speak with your recruiter about any questions.